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Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V/VM Universal Volume Manager User’s Guide
Contents
Preface...................................................................................................ix
Intended Audience ...............................................................................................x
Product Version....................................................................................................x
Document Revision Level ......................................................................................x
Source Documents for this Revision ...................................................................... xi
Changes in this Revision ......................................................................................xi
Document Organization .......................................................................................xi
Referenced Documents....................................................................................... xii
Document Conventions...................................................................................... xiii
Convention for Storage Capacity Values .............................................................. xiv
Getting Help ...................................................................................................... xv
Comments......................................................................................................... xv
Overview of Universal Volume Manager.................................................. 1-1
Hitachi Universal Volume Manager......................................................................1-2
Unifying Copy Operations between Different Storage Systems ..............................1-3
Unifying Connections from a Host to Different Storage Systems ............................1-4
About Universal Volume Operations Manager.......................................... 2-1
Connecting External Storage System...................................................................2-2
Universal Volume Manager Components..............................................................2-4
Storage Systems and Cross-subsystem Paths.......................................................2-5
Volumes and Mapping Paths ..............................................................................2-5
Universal Volume Manager Operations ................................................................2-7
Configuring Universal Volume Manager ...............................................................2-8
Choosing External Port ......................................................................................2-8
Choosing and Mapping External Volumes ............................................................2-8
Registering a Volume to an External Volume Group (ExG) ....................................2-9
Configuring External Volume Attributes ...............................................................2-9
Cross-subsystem Paths ....................................................................................2-11